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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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1. That we in this act of Justification, or laying hold on Christ, have nothing of our own. All our righteousness is without us, we are to receive it offered,1 we have nothing inherent. This Paul knew experimentally, Phil. 3. when he would be found not in his own righteousness, but that which is by faith. His own, mark that, Any thing we may call our own, we must not be found in, and that is our own, which is not only so effectivé, by our own procuring and labour, or merit, but subjectivé, which is inherent in us, though it be wrought by the grace of God, as the Just is said to live by his faith, Hab. 2.4. It's his faith subjectively, though Gods effectively. This word then receiving doth carry every man humbled Evangelically, wholly out of himself; and as was said to the woman looking into the Sepulchre, Why look you for him, he is not here, he is risen? So it may be said, Why art thou searching and digging into thine own heart? Thy works or graces, these are not the object of faith; It's above thee; It's without thee, though by faith applied to thee: Even as the poor cripple that desired to be healed, looked upon Christ, expecting help from him, he knew he had nothing in himself; or as the indigent beggar looks without him, and stretcheth out his hand to receive food or money: So is it with the humbled sinner: Oh then be directed here, why doth God make thy own heart, thy own ways so bitter to thee? Is it not because thou shouldst seek out for a Christ, and look for a righteousness without thee?
1. That we in this act of Justification, or laying hold on Christ, have nothing of our own. All our righteousness is without us, we are to receive it offered,1 we have nothing inherent. This Paul knew experimentally, Phil. 3. when he would be found not in his own righteousness, but that which is by faith. His own, mark that, Any thing we may call our own, we must not be found in, and that is our own, which is not only so effectivé, by our own procuring and labour, or merit, but subjectivé, which is inherent in us, though it be wrought by the grace of God, as the Just is said to live by his faith,